A blog about making model trains, little boats and both real and model automobiles. Typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Rear truck

At the back of the C15 you find what I assume on the prototype is a radial truck. The model cheats and uses a pony track hidden in the frames to do the same job for a whole lot less engineering. It's a common enough subterfuge as no one can see the difference from the track side and saves trying to make a bent tube up accurately from soldered bits.

As well as swivelling, the truck is so narrow that there is a load of side play in the axle even with the bearing inserted from the inside of the box and protruding wheelward. I see a lot of spacing washers on the fret but think they can stay there for the time being - until I get to test this model on it's eventual home anyway.